Sweden got rich under laissez-faire and nearly wrecked itself trying to forget it. Between 1870 and 1970, Sweden ran one of the freest economies in Europe: low taxes, open trade, sound money, and entrepreneurs like the Wallenbergs and Ingvar Kamprad building world-class firms. By… pic.twitter.com/VFaWtOaFW2
— Handre (@Handre) July 17, 2026
Agatha Christie once remarked that she had never expected to grow rich enough to own a car or poor enough not to have servants.
— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) July 16, 2026
The reason this strikes us as bizarre today boils down to two names that you hear invoked a lot in the tech industry: Jevons and Baumol. One is… https://t.co/4uGZh2NtZ4
Life cycle of a strawberry pic.twitter.com/UR6JKaM0uV
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 17, 2026
In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.
— NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 (@japan_nobunaga) July 17, 2026
I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.
Six minutes later I was holding chicken.
I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water…
This is so cool!!! The power of social media🇺🇸🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/cHRokpozPm
— Freddy🇩🇪 (@FreddyLA7) July 16, 2026
You know the pamphlet "Common Sense," the one that convinced America to break from Britain. You know Thomas Paine wrote it. Here's what you probably don't know. Another man talked Paine into writing it, and gave it that title. Meet Dr. Benjamin Rush.
— Echoes of War (@EchoesofWarYT) July 16, 2026
Rush is arguably the most… pic.twitter.com/uTM7q7HGD2
"Why Industrial Policy Fails," by Lindsay Graham
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) July 16, 2026
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Amazing Physics pic.twitter.com/kTtEZkMzsQ
— Amazing Physics (@amazing_physics) July 17, 2026
the most confusing part of the odyssey is how this took 10 years pic.twitter.com/WQxnpx1xzB
— Matt Slotnick (@matt_slotnick) July 16, 2026
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